The Burj Khalifa—which Tom Cruise likes so much—is complete, a needle of glass surrounded by turquoise water in the middle of the desert. Here's how the complex looks, photographed by GeoEye 1, the highest resolution imaging commercial satellite.

We warned you that Google would soon be snapping shots of your backyard with GeoEye-1, a military-controlled satellite with the highest-resolution terrestrial camera now in orbit. Well, yesterday at high noon Eastern time, Larry and Sergei's little baby started snapping. But according to Wired, GeoEye's communications…

According to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it's not an ordinary commercial satellite: it's fully controlled by the Department of Defense's U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. And…

Next month, a commercial satellite named the GeoEye-1 will go into the Earth's orbit. Its highest resolution photos-shots that will spot a 16-inch beachball-will be reserved for military use. However, slightly lower resolution imagery will be made available in the commercial sector, like Google Earth.